LOT DETAILS

Materials:

lithograph, on Chine paper

Size Notes:

sheet

Markings:

signed in pencil

Condition:

Woll's first state (of ten), the sheet trimmed slightly into the image, pale scattered foxing throughout, the lower left sheet corner reattached and touched in, an area at the upper left sheet edge made up, framed

Literature:

Schiefler 34; Woll 41

Provenance:

Galerie Graupe, Berlin, September 1925, lot 749 (195 RM.); Museen der Stadt Lübeck; their stamp twice on the reverse (not in L.), acquired at the above sale; Confiscated from the Museum Behnhaus, Lubeck, as 'degenerate art' by the German National Socialist regime on 31 May 1938 (Entartete Kunst No. 11502); Harald Holst Halvorsen, Oslo (acquired together with all other confiscated works by Munch from the above museum; for GBP 8.00); sale, i Wangs Kunsthandels lokale, Oslo, Edv. Munchs malerier og grafiske arbeider fra tyske museer, 16-23 January 1939, lot 12. Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 1 May 2007, lot 291; Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.